Bjorn,
If it were to work like Google or Bing, then it would be great, but it only partly behaves that way.
If I do a search, it will populate the dropdown list with the results that "contain" my search string. If I pick one that the search string is not the very first item, it will populate the box with all the values from all the configured search fields for that feature.
I can then double click to select it, but it will only select a single word. If I have 5 search fields, then I have to either double click many times (as the double click select doesn't span any puctuation, spaces, commas, etc) and delete them, or drag/select the entire string if I want to delete and do a new search. Since some of my fields may have a sentence in there, not just a single word, this is tedious as I have to keep dragging off the viewer until I reach the end of the string.
So, this is similar to Google (of course the Google search box isn't a tiny little box in the corner, and can normally see the "entire" search string) except with Google, if I want to clear the entire string for a new search, then tripple click is the answer (most software, double click selects a word, tripple click selects entire line). If this box had a tripple click/select all like Google, Bing, and Yahoo, and the rest of the world, then it would be a moot point.
Of course, a simple clear button would resolve the issue as well.
There just isn't a "non-frustrating" way to clear a large string from that box when one wants to do a new search.
I'm pretty new to flex and not sure how to add the tripple click option, and had issues trying to get a clear button to show up "outside" of the textinputbox, so I handled it this way.
R_